Multi-organizational teams tag burbot, collect their eggs Teams from the Ktunaxa Nation Council, Kootenai Tribe of Idaho (USA), Idaho Department of Fish and Game, and…
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Band leads 517-hectare wetland restoration
The Yaqan Nukiy Wetland Project is Canada’s biggest Indigenous-led wetland restoration Since beyond living memory, the wetland at Yaqan Nukiy was a sprawling 7,000-hectare resource…
IJC asked to help form plan for transboundary pollution
The ongoing struggle to establish a transboundary plan to deal with pollution in the Elk and Kootenay/Kootenai river watershed today (March 11) reached a positive…
Burbot recovery work to begin in Lower Kootenay area
British Columbia’s fish biologists and international co-managers will be on Moyie Lake in February to catch, tag and release burbot as part of egg collection…
16th round of Columbia River Treaty negotiations complete
The 16th round of Canada-U.S. negotiations to modernize the Columbia River Treaty took place on March 22 and 23, in Washington, D.C. During this latest…
PM hosts world but dismisses First Nations at home
As Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hosts the international community in Montreal this week for the United Nations Biodiversity Conference, the six Indigenous governments from…
Wildsight backs KNC on watershed pollution concerns
Wildsight recently declared it strongly supports the Ktunaxa Nation’s decades long call to have the International Joint Commission (ICJ) address the deterioration of water quality…
Cross border vaccine clinic announced
Yaqan NuɁkiy (Lower Kootenay Band) announced today that it has partnered with the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho, Canadian Border Services Agency, Representatives of the State…
Latest Columbia River Treaty talks held in ?aq’am
For the eighth round of discussions about the future of the Columbia River Treaty, Canadian and U.S. negotiators recently returned to the B.C., meeting for…
Celebrating the immersion of sturgeon
Families, friends and members of surrounding communities are invited to the annual juvenile white sturgeon release on Thursday, May 16, between 2 and 4 p.m….